If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will practice close reading poems for both literal and figurative meanings.
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Students will think and write analytically about literature, using examples from the text and appropriate literary terminology to support arguments about the way a text functions.
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Students will familiarize themselves with the Irish Literary Revival and be able to identify elements of it in Yeats's work.
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Students will study the historical context of Yeats's poems and be able to identify references to contemporary happenings in his work.
